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At some point, enough is enough.
Fair to say Albertans have been talking about independence, or at least real autonomy, since the province was born.
This did not start with the NEP.
It did not start with Trudeau.
It did not start with equalization.
It goes right back to 1905.
When Alberta was created, Ottawa kept control of our public lands and natural resources until 1930. That alone tells you the relationship was broken from the start. We were not treated like a full partner in Confederation. We were treated like territory to be managed.
By 1911, Alberta Liberal Alwyn Bramley-Moore was already warning that if Ottawa kept treating Alberta unfairly, it could push the province toward secession.
Then came the freight-rate fights, the tariff fights, the banking fights in the 1930s, and eventually the oil boom. Every generation got its own version of the same lesson:
Ottawa takes Alberta’s wealth, lectures Alberta about fairness, then acts shocked when Albertans resent it.
The NEP in the 1980s was not some random one-off ...It was part of a much longer pattern.
Western alienation is not new.
Alberta separatism is not new.
The grievance has been there since day one because Alberta entered Confederation on unequal terms.
The independence conversation rises and falls depending on the political moment, but the underlying issue has never gone away.
Alberta has spent 120 years being treated like a resource colony inside its own country.
WE'RE DONE.
Paul Mitchell@PaulMitchell_AB
Alberta's march toward independence is not a "flirtation" which makes the hard work of Albertans for sovereignty and freedom sound unserious and flippant. For decades Ottawa has plundered and abused Alberta. Independence is not a "problem" for Albertans: it is the solution!
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